Let that night be blotted off the calendar, never again to be counted among the days of the year, never again to appear among the months.
Parallel translations
- WEB As for that night, let thick darkness seize on it. Let it not rejoice among the days of the year. Let it not come into the number of the months.
- KJV As for that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.
- BSB If only darkness had taken that night away! May it not appear among the days of the year; may it never be entered in any of the months.
- NKJV As for that night, may darkness seize it; May it not rejoice among the days of the year, May it not come into the number of the months.
- NASB “As for that night, may darkness seize it; May it not rejoice among the days of the year; May it not come into the number of the months.
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Quick answer
Job wishes the night of his conception erased from the calendar entirely. He wants no trace of it to remain.
Overview
Job asks that thick darkness seize that night and that it be removed from the year's reckoning altogether. The wish to delete his origin from time itself shows grief pressed to its limit. Such lament gives voice to despair without abandoning the framework of a God-ordered creation.
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